National Affairs: ELECTION SCORECARD

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(Including Maine results of September)

SENATE

Before . . . . . . . . . . Dem. 49 Rep. 47 Seats at stake . . . . . . . Dem. 13 Rep. 21 Lost to rival party . . . . Dem. none Rep. 13 After . . . . . . . . . . . Dem. 62 Rep. 34

HOUSE

Before . . . . . . . . . . Dem. 235 Rep. 200 Seats at stake . . . . . . . all Lost to rival party . . . . Dem. 1 Rep. 47* After . . . . . . . . . . . Dem. 281 Rep. 153

GOVERNORS

Before . . . . . . . . . . Dem. 29 Rep. 19 Seats at stake . . . . . . . Dem. 19 Rep. 13 Lost to rival party . . . . Dem. 4 Rep. 8† After . . . . . . . . . . . Dem. 33 Rep. 14

STATE LEGISLATURES‡

Lower Houses Before . . . . . . . . . . Dem. 28 Rep. 19 After . . . . (one tie) Dem. 38 Rep. 8 Upper Houses Before . . . (one tie) Dem. 23 Rep. 23 After . . . . . . . . . . . Dem. 30 Rep. 17

Biggest Democratic margin: California's Governor-elect Brown, 1,012,000. Biggest Republican margin: New York's Governor-elect Rockefeller, 557,000.

* One Republican seat in Illinois still in doubt.

† Nebraska race between Republican cumbent Victor Anderson and Democrat Ralph Brooks still in doubt.

‡ Omitted: Nebraska's nonpartisan unicameral legislature.

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